I love to take actors to a place where they open a vein. That’s the job. The key is that I make… — Mike Nichols Copy Share Image
We are being entertained all the time - in the bathroom, on the train, in our beds. Sure, there is a smaller… — Mike Nichols Copy Share Image
I'm in the theater because of two plays: 'A Streetcar Named Desire' and 'Death of a Salesman.' — Mike Nichols Copy Share Image
I have never understood people dividing things into dramas and comedies, — Mike Nichols Copy Share Image
I keep coming back to it, over and over - adultery and cheating. It's the most interesting problem in the theater. How… — Mike Nichols Copy Share Image
All the theories that acting is reacting to imaginary circumstances as though they are real, and directing is turning psychology into behavior,… — Mike Nichols Copy Share Image
I had a high school girlfriend whose mother gave us theater tickets, so I saw the second night performance of 'A Streetcar… — Mike Nichols Copy Share Image
Stand-up comedy is a very hard thing on the spirit. There are people who transcend it, like Jack Benny and Steve Martin, but in… — Mike Nichols Copy Share Image
It's the hardest thing on earth to like yourself, and then when you do, it's a catastrophe. I mean, the people I know who… — Mike Nichols Copy Share Image
I used to say that winning the Oscar means being back at the Beverly Hills Hotel at 1 A.M. feeling empty. It's the industry… — Mike Nichols Copy Share Image
I'm an enormous fan of 'The West Wing.' It was one of the very few shows I would watch every week. — Mike Nichols Copy Share Image
I don't expect anything from reviews. Sometimes I am bemused by them. — Mike Nichols Copy Share Image
My first memory in the world is my gym teacher ripping my mother's necklace off her neck and throwing it out the window and… — Mike Nichols Copy Share Image
Whether something is a success or not has never had much to do with what you do next. — Mike Nichols Copy Share Image
The reason that most British actors are better than most American actors in the end is that they don't make any money. At the… — Mike Nichols Copy Share Image
If you lose a parent, it never goes away. As a kid, I dreamed about my father coming back for 15 or 20 years.… — Mike Nichols Copy Share Image
Nerves provide me with energy... It's when I don't have them, when I feel at ease, that I get worried. — Mike Nichols Copy Share Image
